Quotes About Perception

I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

I feel more mature than most people my age.